inspiral blog

Thus Jesus sends his disciples out to go, not to “all the world” but only to “the lost sheep of the house of Israel”. So we could get a sense of what this must have been like I sent everyone out (including myself) with the same instructions…what would we come up with?

Well, firstly it was like being thrown in the deep end when you can’t swim – I imagine not unlike how the disciples (or apostles actually) might have felt. Then it was just plain difficult to figure out what it meant for us, now, in suburban Brunswick.

So we wrestled for a while with the implications – is raising the dead really that simple? – but then came back to the context of the passage. Jesus sends them out to “proclaim the good news – the Kingdom of Heaven has come near!” and then asks them to be signs of that new Kingdom – a Kingdom where there is new life in that which seems dead, where the sick are healed, the outcasts restored, and demons flee. That may look a little different where we are, but they’re all things we can do right here and now.